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I think it's safe to say most people are growing very tired of Megyn Kelly's weekly drama queen rubbish. Thought I would float this idea that I hope that catches fire.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Hillary Clinton and her supporters spent a record $1.2 billion for her losing presidential campaign  twice as much as the winner, Donald Trump, according to the latest records. The president-elect, who confounded critics during the campaign by saying there was no need to raise or spend $1 billion or more, ended up making do with $600 million.

They had never met, and they had had only harsh words toward each other during the campaign. But President Barack Obama and his successor, Donald Trump, are discussing policy and politics with more frequency than many anticipated after this past years bitterly fought election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In recent years, whenever a government-backed bishop not approved by the Vatican appeared at an episcopal ordination along with Vatican-approved bishops, Chinese Catholics would mock it saying "mixing sand with rice." The first time I heard "mixing sand with the rice" was via my mentor, the late Father Yan Wenda.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The goal of the job title review Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus initiated back in January is to make women feel more included now that they have access to all combat roles, but the reason midshipman will remain in its current state is because the name is a rank stipulated by the law, Capital Gazette reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald argued no VA hospital is "bad" in a letter to USA Today on Friday, just one day after the publication exposed an internal rating system that showed several clinics in Texas and Tennessee had received low marks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The biggest complaint from most of the property owners out here is the litter and the lack of respect for property boundaries, Wagner said. Wagner says signs should clearly spell out rules, including not going to the bathroom on the beach, cleaning up after pets and picking up trash.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

From the Long Island Catholic, some happy news for my neighbors to the east: Pope Francis today appointed Most Reverend John O. Barres, Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to serve as the fifth Bishop of Rockville Centre.

The Danish government has revealed that of the suspected 800 underage asylum seekers they believed to be lying about their age, 600 of them were adults according to medical tests.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Eighteen states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over Final Rules that expand the definition of critical habitat to include areas that are currently unoccupied by any threatened or endangered species.

A man who called residents of fire-ravaged Gatlinburg, Tenn., Trump-suckin pond scum has lost his job. Funny story. I was recently in gatlinburg. Had a terrible time, I felt that the place was a cesspool of consumerism and a bastion of the worst aspects of southern culture.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dow Chemical Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris will be heading the national Manufacturing Council, Republican President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday. The news was announced at Trump's Friday night rally in the Grand Rapids area, which is part of his nationwide post-election thank you tour. Liveris, who was born in Australia and has worked with Dow for 40 years, said during brief comments at the rally that the Midland-based company is committed to investing more in Michigan. He said he was "tingling with pride" at the appointment and told the

As Donald Trump begins to staff his administration, his appointees should understand how deeply the ideologically-driven LGBTs have burrowed into permanent jobs in the permanent bureaucracy and how dangerous they are.The new political appointees should also understand how this group and their allies have driven those who may disagree with their agenda either underground or from the federal bureaucracy altogether, and some even to jail.And they should understand that this group is entrenched and determined not to give an inch in the territory they have gained under the incredibly radical Obama

Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday. That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Minutes after news broke that he withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of State, Rudy Giuliani called in to Fox News to speak to Neil Cavuto about his decision.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

VATICAN CITY  Priests are called to be mediators between God and God's people, offering their time and their very lives in service; they are not God's "intermediaries" or functionaries, who go to work to get paid or, worse, enter the priesthood in search of status, Pope Francis said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Hillary Clintons campaign tried to remove an MSNBC personality from the air after she aired criticisms of the Democratic presidential candidate, the host revealed Friday. Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of MSNBCs Morning Joe, said NBC was pressured to get her pulled during the campaign.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

94 minutes! Mostly amusing and laugh out loud funny. At times shocking and disturbing. Lots of new meltdown footage I had never seen. I was riveted and could not look away.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Donald Trump, speaking Friday night in Grand Rapids, Mich.: When I heard they spent $7 million on the fireworks ... we sent them a nice verbal statement. We will offer you five cents on the dollar for the fireworks ...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

President Barack Obama responded to appeals from Alaska Native villages and gave them more of a say in the federal management of marine resources of the Bering Sea. Obama signed an executive order Friday to create a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area that will focus locally tailored protections on marine resources.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Senate Democrats are appealing to the working-class white voters they lost to President-elect Donald Trump by threatening a short government shutdown over issues important to them. Red-state Democrats up for reelection in 2018 are forcing the standoff over the year-end spending bill to keep the government open  insisting on health-care benefits for retired coal miners and requiring the use of American steel in infrastructure projects.

Six years ago, Newsweek sold for a grand total of one dollar. Many would say that amount was way overpriced and one big reason is the completely unprofessional sick smear job they are pulling on Donald Trump.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share